Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the lavish expenditure of Administration rhetoric, the U.S. Senate pinked the President by passing the Cooper-Church amendment, which, though watered down, nonetheless served clear warning that Nixon should not feel free to embark on another Cambodia. Moreover, the news from Phnom-Penh was that the Communists were enlarging their hold on portions of the embattled country (see THE WORLD). And despite Nixon's appointment of Veteran Diplomat David K.E. Bruce to head the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks with Hanoi, there was little indication that North Viet Nam was willing to begin fruitful negotiations...
...President refused to see any kind of rebuke in the Senate's approval of the Cooper-Church amendment. Indeed, the language of the amendment had been muddied by modifications added in order to make its legal impact dubious even if it is accepted by a House-Senate conference committee, which must act on it next. Passed by an easy 58-to-37 margin, the amendment tries to tie the President's hands so as to avoid any repetition of a Cambodia venture by denying him the use of federal funds to 1) retain U.S. forces in Cambodia...
...motion already before the House to instruct House delegates to the conference to support Cooper-Church was defeated by the vote to table...
...Cooper-Church amendment-a move to limit the President's power to commit American troops in Indo-China-lost its first test in the House yesterday by a vote...
...vote came on a motion to table the Military Sales Bill-the vehicle to which Cooper-Church has been attached. Anit-war forces hoped to keep the bill before the House with the object of voting it into a conference committee with the Senate...